[OE-core] [PATCH 1/9] sudo: Drop sudo_cv_uid_t_len from site files

[Phil Blundell]

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 10:25 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 03:56:45 PM Tom Rini wrote:
> > We were just setting this to the assumed default.  If anything, this
> > belongs in the libc files if we must set it.
> 
> uid_t is not a libc controlled define. Its kernel controlled (though kernel-
> headers)

No, that's incorrect.  The uid_t that applications see is controlled by
libc and decoupled from __kernel_uid_t.  There is logic in glibc to
convert between types if necessary.

p.